Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British chemist and physicist. He became assistant to Sir Humphrey Davy in 1813 and succeeded him as professor at the Royal Institution in 1833. Faraday’s experiments with electricity and magnetism led to the discovery that an electric current is induced in a circuit ‘ that is moved relative to a magnetic field. This discovery led to the principle of the dynamo and the electric motor. Faraday was the first person to liquidize a gas by pressure; he also discovered the phenomena of electrolysis and the rotary polarization of light when passed through an electric field.
